KEMPLEY, a parish in the hundred of BOTLOE,
county of GLOUCESTER, 5 miles (N. W. by N.) from
Newent, containing 301 inhabitants. The living is a
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Hereford, and diocese
of Gloucester, rated in the king's books at .£5. 6. 65.,
and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Hereford,
as masters of Ledbury Hospital. The church is
in the Norman style. There is a small endowment for
the instruction of children, the bequest of Elizabeth
Pyndar in 1755.